Speaking to Yourself with Love: Transform Your Self-Talk

When you speak to yourself, do you use words of love and kindness? Or does your self-talk sound judgmental and cruel - bringing you down like a leak in a tire? Speaking to yourself with Love: Transform Your Self-Talk by Maryse Cardin is a roadmap to bringing more compassion, kindness and love into your life. Learn why self-talk is so important to our relationships - both at home and at work. Discover what a powerful force our self-talk is in charting the direction of our lives. Gain the skills you need to slow down and listen to your self talk and change your inner conversation.If you are ready to transform your inner conversation and change your life, this book is for you. Speaking to Yourself with Love: Transform Your Self-Talk is filled with personal stories of how Maryse changed her own inner speech. She went from being cruel and critical of herself to being kind, understanding, loving, and compassionate, and to standing by herself like a good friend does. Years ago, Maryse made a life-changing decision to stop self-bashing. She then embarked on years of studying self-talk, attending workshops, conducting university research and interviews, meditation, self-care, and work with top teachers and therapists, until she transformed her inner speech. She shares all her insights, secrets and the tools she developed for herself, and for her workshops and university classes. Her intention is to shed light on how to choose a different way to speak to yourself. You'll learn: -How to start speaking to yourself like a real best friend would. -How to give meaning to your own life with the words you choose to say to yourself-How to speak the truth to yourself -How to give yourself protection from your inner bully -How to comfort yourself in times of need and hold your own hand-Self-talk for healing and self-care-Listen to your deepest most inner voice for wisdom and guidance This unique book also contains the inspirational stories of 12 women who are using their self-talk to create their right lives. Read about how: -Jacky taps into traditional African wisdom and dance to tell herself the truth, and to stand stronger-Martine uses her self-talk to feel more courageous and follow what her soul calls her to do - like ride a Harley on the open road -Maggie's life completely changed when she started telling herself loving and positive words. She is now a successful entrepreneur and mother of five boys. -Trilby brings humour and levity to her self-talk to deal with life's most difficult challengesEach chapter includes real life stories, self-talk information, and explorations to help you transform your self-talk. Chapter 1: There's only love, only love, only, only loveOr choose words of love and compassionChapter 2: You've got a friend in meOr choose words of kindnessChapter 3: It's my life and I get to decide what it meansOr choose words of meaningChapter 4: I am more important than my problemsOr choose words of self-worthChapter 5: Tell yourself the truth even when you don't want it to be trueOr choose words of truth and acceptanceChapter 6: Saddle up even if you are scaredOr Choose words of courageChapter 7: Secure your own oxygen mask firstOr choose words of healing and self-careChapter 8: Be your own lighthouseOr choose words of guidanceChapter 9: Keep yourself safe even from your own selfOr choose words of protectionChapter 10: When in doubt, take a napOr choose words of calm and relaxationChapter 11: Lighten up babyOr choose words of levity and humourChapter 12: I can hear youOr choose words that show you are listeningHere's what a reader like you said about the book: Self-talk is so powerful it can literally change your life for better or worse. Isn't it a blessing that, as Maryse writes, we get to choose what kind of self-talk we wish to create our lives with; and she makes it easy to learn how Visit www.selftalklove.com for more info.

Maryse Cardin has dedicated her life to communications - she was once a journalist who then started her own award-winning public relations agency before finding her way to teaching communications at several universities. It was during her teaching career that she had the startling realization that her life’s work had been about the art of communication but had never examined the way she communicated with herself. She then slowly began to transform her own self-talk and in this book, she shares the tools she discovered along the way. Maryse is now an author, self-talk coach and workshop leader. She is dedicated to speaking to herself with love, compassion, and kindness, and to helping others learn to do the same. Her passion for teaching positive and loving self-talk is driven by her desire for everyone to have lives filled with love, health, calm, joy, and fulfilment. For many, self-talk is the key to healing and personal transformation. Speaking to yourself with Love is Maryse’s second book. Her first, Canadian PR: For the Real World was co-authored with Kylie McMullan. She lives in Vancouver, Canada. Find out more about Maryse at www.selftalklove.com and facebook: selftalklove Reviews of Maryse’s book: This book is a road map to living your life with compassion, care and love - for yourself. There are a lot of us who have spent our lives helping and supporting others, and thinking about our own self-care may feel like a bit of an alien concept, but it is so important. Many people have no idea about how much or how often they harm themselves with negative self-talk. For those who have lifted their heads - even a little - above the swamp of self-nastiness that we, as human beings, are so easily trapped in, this book is a lifesaver. If you take the guidance, advice and wisdom in this book to heart and you implement the tools that Maryse provides on every page, your life will change drastically for the better. I have been working on this area of myself for many years now - and this book provided me with many helpful practices (more than I expected) that I can use right now. For anyone looking to improve his or her life (in so, so, so many ways that you can’t see yet!), this book is the personal guide you need.- Ruth Atherley